During the meeting of the White House, Hake Jeffries saw the hat “Trump 2028” and asked JD Vance “Hey, bro, do you have a problem?” | Luck

“Trump 2028,” they said, located opposite the seats, vice president JD Vance and several untouched diet dicks.

House democratic leader Hake Jeffries leaned to Vance, in itself a potential candidate 2028, and joked, “Hey, bro, do you have a problem with that?”

The room laughed in response.

“It was the most random thing in the world because we sat there, we have a serious conversation, and all the southern two red hats appear,” Jeffries remembered later in Capitol.

“It was all so unbelievable,” said Jeffries, describing Roving a cameraman who captured a moment. “We were there for serious reasons that it wasn’t really a big part, you know, discussions. It was a theater.”

The moment was vintage trumping of attention and trying to throw away the negotiators from their game- but also underlined the President’s view of Congress, Koequal branch of the government, and especially his opponents across the political alley.

From the historical first meeting to viral trolling

What was considered to be a historical opportunity- the President of the United States, which the convent of his first “big four” meeting of congress leaders from the house and the Senate- was limited to another viral souvenir Trump, who trolls his opponent.

And after more than an hour’s meeting, Trump failed to conclude an agreement with the leaders to prevent the federal government from closing.

“We don’t want it to turn off,” Trump said the next day at the White House, hours before midnight.

It was not just a routine meeting of the President and the leadership of Congress. It was the first time Trump had gathered the leader of Congress, for more than eight months to his Presidency – and the first time he and Jeffries officially met.

But more surprising was how little it came.

Health funds for debate when the president listens

During the White House meeting Jeffries and the Democratic leader of the Senate Chuck Schumer set their arguments for saving healthcare funding in interviews with shutdown.

Trump said very little, doing more listening than speaking, the leaders said.

“He did not seem to know about health care so much that it increases so much,” Schumer said.

With the Republican leadership, head of the head of the house Mike Johnsonand Senate, the interview moved in their opinions on health care.

“Live,” as Thune said later.

The discussion included the demand of Democrats to ensure compensation for helping people to buy private insurance on stock exchanges operated by law on available care are permanent. The subsidies were introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic and in some estimates they are ready to expire at the end of the year and in some estimates.

The conversation also affected the new Rural Hospital Fund, which is important for Republicans, established under the Great Law of Trump as a way to compensate their cuts to healthcare providers.

Johnson said Trump showed “a strong, solid lead.

Try to catch the President’s caution

This is the best that the Democrats could have hope for – to have President Aiiring, who began to change the dial for their demand. And this is what GOP leaders have tried to try to tick each side on the other side.

Johnson suggested Trump back from the initial meeting with Democrats – after the President agreed with one – he claims it would be a “waste of time”.

Trump, however, reported and grant them an oval office with closed doors.

The Democrats were there before. During Trump’s first term of office, the president has repeatedly negotiated agreements with Democrats – “Chuck and Nancy”, as Schumer and Emerita Nancy Pelosi spokesman called, to finance the government, increase the limit of debt and achieve other goals.

These negotiated Trump frustrated his own Republican party.

Republicans who are aware of this history are trying to direct the conversation in a different direction and leave the door open to later discuss health care with democrats – as soon as the government reopened. They also faced the characterization of Trump as the unconscious of the depth or size of health care.

“I’m very skeptical that the president heard about it for the first time,” Vance said.

One Republican unauthorized to publicly discuss private meetings and grant anonymy to do so, said Schumer’s suggestion that Trump did not know about the problem with the subsidy, was exaggerated.

So far, in his second term, the President has been able to fulfill his priorities in his sov, with executive events and cuts led by Elon Musk, which torn the federal authorities, or with a compatible congress that passed on his tax relief and expenditure, commonly calls one great beauty that also supports his mass deportation.

Washington, however, is not just in the White House and Congress is not a majority institution. Putting most accounts into laws requires and adopted by the compromise of Bippartisana, especially in the Senate, and especially in terms of the annual funds needed to maintain the government’s operation.

Then the ridicule of the sombrero came

Hours after the legislators left the meeting, Trump’s team published a fake video that showed that Jeffries decorated Sombrero with a false mustache standing next to Schumer in front of the White House. It was considered racist.

“When I practiced the law, there was a Latin phrase that has always been one of my favorites,” Jeffries said in his capitol office. “RESSSSA Loquitur. This means: The thing speaks for itself.”

“On Monday, we were full of aiiring of our positions, which should set a basic conversation from the administration to try to re -enter a meaningful two -sided journey that finances the government,” he said.

“Unfortunately, the presidential behavior after the White House meeting has deteriorated in Ahinged and the pending action.”